Alekseevsky Mikhail Dmitrievich (born February 15, 1979 , Moscow ) is a Russian anthropologist , folklorist . Head of the Center for Urban Anthropology KB Strelka .
| Alekseevsky, Mikhail Dmitrievich | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | February 15, 1979 (aged 40) |
| Place of Birth | Moscow |
| Citizenship | the Russian Federation |
| Occupation | Social anthropologist , folklorist , urbanist |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Research Interests
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born and raised in Moscow in a family of mathematicians. For the first time I went on a folklore expedition to the Kargopol district of the Arkhangelsk region in 1997 as a student practice after finishing the first year. In 2001, he graduated from the Department of Philology at the Faculty of History and Philology of the Russian State Humanitarian University (RSUH) (the supervisor is Prof. Andrei Moroz). After graduation, he entered graduate school at the Center for Historical Anthropology. Mark Blok (RGGU) in 2005 defended his dissertation “Feast in the rites and ritual folklore of the Russian North (based on the material of funeral and memorial rites and lamentations)” (scientific adviser is Prof. Andrei Toporkov ).
Since 2005, a researcher at the State Republican Center for Russian Folklore . In May 2010, he created and headed the department of modern folklore in the structure of the SRRC. The department organized the scientific conference “Folklore of the 21st Century” annually (the collection of scientific articles of the same name was published as a result of the first scientific conference), conducted anthropological field studies in small towns of Vladimir ( Murom , Melenki ) and Kostroma Oblast ( Galich , Kologriv , Manturovo , Sharya ). In February 2014, the department was disbanded in connection with the conversion of the SRRC.
Having started cooperation with the Strelka Institute in 2012, he became one of the pioneers of applied urban anthropology in Russia. In 2014, he became the head of the Strelka Design Bureau for Urban Anthropology, developing and conducting applied research aimed at identifying the needs and requirements of various categories of users of the urban environment [1] .
From 1997 to 2017, he took part in more than 50 folklore and anthropological expeditions [2] , including as the organizer and leader of some of them. Since 2013, he has made numerous trips to Russian cities as part of research and educational projects of Strelka Design Bureau [3] [4] [5] [6] .
Member of scientific societies International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) (since 2011), The International Society for Contemporary Legend Research (since 2012), The Society for Applied Anthropology (since 2014).
Scientific Interests
It is distinguished by a variety of scientific interests, which are reflected in approximately 100 scientific publications [7] . Initially, he dealt mainly with topics related to Russian peasant folklore and ritual culture, paying special attention to feast practices [8] [9] and funeral laments [10] [11] [12] , to which his dissertation research was devoted.
In the mid-2000s, he began to engage more actively in the study of modern urban folklore. Among the topics that scientific works of this time are devoted to, contemporary urban legends [13] [14] , various forms of Internet folklore [15] [16] , and post-Soviet political jokes [17] [18] stand out.
In the 2010s Mikhail Alekseevsky is gradually moving away from the study of folklore, paying more attention to problems concerning the broader issues of urban anthropology [19] [20] [21] [22] . In his spare time from scientific studies, he is actively engaged in the popularization of humanitarian knowledge, in particular, he records video lectures for the Post-Science project [23] [24] [25] . In December 2018, at the educational project "Radio Arzamas" a lecture course by Mikhail Alekseevsky on contemporary folklore "Why do we need memes, horror stories and jokes" [26]
Notes
- ↑ Read the city, or enthralling anthropology . media.strelka-kb.com. Date of treatment January 30, 2019.
- ↑ Mikhail Alekseevsky: participation in expeditions
- ↑ "Come in here." And set the style. [Interview with M. Alekseevsky] // Russian newspaper. 12/02/2014 .
- ↑ Cities give up. [Interview with M. Alekseevsky] // Russian newspaper. 02/06/2015.
- ↑ City anthropologist Mikhail Alekseevsky about why residents know how to change the city // Public speech. 08/18/2015.
- ↑ Alekseevsky M. D. Why do you need this anthropology? // Kazan University. 06/15/2016.
- ↑ Bibliography M.D. Alekseevsky
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. The ritual use of alcoholic beverages among the North Russian peasants in the XIX - XX centuries. // Northern text in Russian culture. Arkhangelsk, 2003.S. 201-203 .
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. Ritual feasts [Video lecture] // PostScience. 07/06/2012.
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. The motive of reviving the dead man in the North Russian funeral lamentations: text and ritual context // Anthropological forum. 2007. No. 6. S. 227-262 .
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. The classification problem of funeral-funeral lamentations // Problems of classification, typology, systematization in ethnographic science: Materials of the Fifth St. Petersburg ethnographic readings. St. Petersburg, 2006.S. 129-132 .)
- ↑ Russian funeral [collective interview with M. D. Alekseevsky] // Radio Liberty. 02/07/2010.
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D., Lurie M.L., Senkina A.A. The legend of the monument to Gogol in Mogilev-Podolsky: the experience of commenting on a fragment of a local text // Anthropological forum. 2009. No. 11. S. 275-312; 2010. No. 12. P. 375-420 .
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. A car with a rocket engine: mechanisms for the dissemination of urban legends on the Internet (Russian) // Traditional Culture: Journal. - 2012. - No. 3 . - S. 173-182 .
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. Internet in folklore or folklore on the Internet? (Contemporary folklore and virtual reality) // From Congress to Congress. Towards the Second All-Russian Congress of Folklorists. Collection of materials. M., 2010.S. 151-166 .
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. “What do I need vodka in the summer heat ...”: Problems of the textology of folklore on the Internet (Russian) // Internet and folklore: Collection of articles. - 2009. - S. 71-89 .
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. Jokes from Zyuganov: folklore in modern political struggle // Anthropological forum. 2010. No. 12 Online. S. 1-36 .
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. Essays from the recent history of the Russian political joke (Rus.) // Russian Political Folklore: Research and Publication: Collection. - 2014 .-- S. 250-305 .
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. The music of our city. Version 2.0 // Anthropological forum. 2011. No 15. Online. S. 288-329 .
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. Who are all these people (with posters)? // Anthropological forum. 2012. No. 16. Online. S. 50-68 .
- ↑ Power is funnier than the opposition. [Interview with M.D. Alekseevsky] // Moscow Komsomolets. 06/30/2012. (No. 25976) .
- ↑ 21st Century Folklore: Heroes of Our Time. Collection of articles / Comp. M.D. Alekseevsky. M., 2013 .
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. Russian political joke [Video lecture] // PostScience. 07/08/2012.
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. Children's folklore [Video lecture] // PostScience. 07/10/2012.
- ↑ Alekseevsky M.D. Magical conspiracies in post-Soviet Russia [Video lecture] // PostScience. 02/18/2016.
- ↑ Children's course. Why do you need memes, horror stories and jokes • Arzamas (Russian) (neopr.) ? . Arzamas. Date of treatment January 29, 2019.